SNEAKO - February 06, 2023


SEEK TRUTH THROUGH FUNNY.


Episode Stats

Length

7 minutes

Words per Minute

198.05194

Word Count

1,525

Sentence Count

1

Misogynist Sentences

3

Hate Speech Sentences

9


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 This is single-handedly the coolest thing I've ever been handed
00:00:03.640 And no, it's not the one million YouTube plaque
00:00:06.600 I was really close to throwing it in the river when I got banned
00:00:09.120 It's the $100 bill that I keep on top of it when you look closer
00:00:12.960 You can see on the left it says much love and on the right it's signed by Dave Chappelle
00:00:18.140 In the basement of a small comedy club in New York City
00:00:20.520 He wanted to smoke so I threw a pack of cigarettes on stage and he gave me this bill and a long message about kindness
00:00:26.400 I think he was happy
00:00:27.360 I was kind enough to give him the whole pack instead of just one but I keep it here as a reminder of my motto
00:00:32.180 To seek truth through funny
00:00:33.920 It's way too hot for this
00:00:35.760 This picture was five years ago
00:00:41.820 It was the first time I performed stand-up comedy and it was the most nervous that I've ever been in my entire life to this day
00:00:48.260 I've been in many scary situations
00:00:50.040 This I wasn't even nervous for a second
00:00:52.320 But this moment I had to poop three times in the club bathroom before I stepped on stage
00:00:57.060 Because these four words define my entire life philosophy
00:01:00.660 Without this I have no idea who I'd be
00:01:03.800 By far the most difficult question I'm asked is how do I find purpose in life?
00:01:08.280 This is how I found mine
00:01:09.720 I grew up during the most self-aware period in human history
00:01:14.720 Traditionally your environment dictates who you are before you even reach the age of self-discovery
00:01:19.680 But my generation was the first one where the environment was social media
00:01:23.600 Previous generations could find themselves tripping lsd at a music festival
00:01:27.600 But we were the first ones where algorithms told us who we were before maturity even had a chance
00:01:32.800 The reason I was pooping so much here and this bill was so cool was stand-up comedy was the first outlet
00:01:38.160 That I found to teach me to think for myself
00:01:40.160 Without stand-up comedy I would have never found what I wanted in life at such an early age
00:01:45.200 Growing up my environment was a world of lies
00:01:48.240 These newly found algorithms allowed us to craft a version of ourselves rather than becoming one
00:01:53.040 And although most of it is terrible comedy is still the pursuit of truth
00:01:57.040 That Arab guy and family guy put it perfectly
00:01:59.440 Flood, can I buy you a cup of coffee?
00:02:01.200 Oh, yes! It's funny because it's free and no one can have
00:02:06.480 By ridiculing the aspects of life we have all accepted as normal you begin to realize just how programmed we are
00:02:12.720 This is the era where social norms are not established out of necessity but out of convenience
00:02:20.480 And not a convenience to the betterment of society but to prioritize people's feelings
00:02:26.000 And additionally my era could be defined by the rise of heightened self-awareness
00:02:31.600 From ages 3 to 12 I was in a constant state of freaking out
00:02:35.760 That was until I found George Carlin
00:02:38.000 Right here he's getting arrested for using too many swear words at a comedy show
00:02:41.760 12 year old me said that's fucking badass
00:02:44.400 I had never seen someone speak so freely and truly not give a fuck
00:02:48.320 He attacked the establishment, he went after the government, he roasted traditional religious gatherings
00:02:53.680 The guy seemed to hate absolutely everything, he was an edgy atheist but he was honest and really angry
00:02:58.960 He came off like he was smarter than everyone telling us what to do and he only had to use jokes to achieve it
00:03:03.920 Some people are really fucking stupid
00:03:07.360 Before George Carlin I studied hard for all my exams and afterwards I cheated because school was a scam
00:03:13.280 How would I let these cops in uniforms tell me what to do?
00:03:16.560 Then George Carlin became a little preachy and I found Louis CK
00:03:20.000 Louis was like the more degenerate, Jewish, Mexican, hilarious version
00:03:27.920 Louis CK helped me realize the absurdities of it all
00:03:30.720 People tweeting their moral stance about climate change on an iPhone made by a Chinese child in a sweatshop
00:03:36.720 People who believe you should say the n-word instead of just saying nigger
00:03:40.560 The n-word
00:03:41.280 That's just white people getting away with saying nigger
00:03:44.160 That's all that is
00:03:45.200 When I was 14 and the third wave of feminism arrived, I found Bill Burr
00:03:49.440 He was answering the questions that every western man has
00:03:52.400 Wait, why should we simply believe all women?
00:03:55.680 Ladies, can you at least admit that every ass kicking doesn't just fall out of the fucking sky?
00:04:00.640 When I turned 16, the world got even crazier when the nation of 79 genders attacked
00:04:05.680 Dave Chappelle was the one who was always able to navigate through the outrage with the right commentary
00:04:10.160 The dude became one of my heroes when I realized he ditched Hollywood of a hundred million dollar contract
00:04:15.600 Because he refused to sell his soul
00:04:17.520 When the industry offered to buy him out, he said fuck your money, fuck your fame
00:04:21.680 And left to Africa for seven years
00:04:23.600 If Dave Chappelle could refuse to sell his soul for a hundred million dollars
00:04:26.960 Then who was I to accept that 20 million dollar gambling deal?
00:04:31.920 When I was 20, I found the funniest guy of all time, but he was already dead
00:04:36.000 His name is Patrice O'Neal
00:04:37.360 Patrice O'Neal said what every man felt, but had no idea how to articulate
00:04:41.680 He died 10 years before I found him, but I still listen to every single bit of media
00:04:45.840 That's ever posted on the internet of Patrice
00:04:47.520 But still, one of my favorite moments of his isn't even comedy
00:04:50.480 It's when he went on national TV to defend a white man
00:04:53.040 Who made a joke about a black woman being a nappy-headed hoe
00:04:56.160 I know that cracker didn't say nappy-headed hoe
00:04:58.240 Patrice O'Neal was fat and he called himself ugly
00:05:00.640 But his existence was proof that the most authentic person is who captivates the room
00:05:05.120 He was the funniest comedian of all time because it wasn't just jokes to him
00:05:09.040 Comedy was a philosophy
00:05:10.480 There was something more important going on than just making people laugh
00:05:13.760 It was about removing all the layers of bullshit to be perfectly honest
00:05:18.400 Comedy is how I learned to remove all those layers of bullshit
00:05:22.160 Growing up feeling like I never fit in
00:05:24.160 Going to school with kids with money who dressed in salmon shorts and Sperry's
00:05:28.400 With that fakeness that every Asian American has at one point
00:05:31.360 Where they tried to blend in undercover with white people
00:05:34.080 But while you're undercover realizing, hey kid, you're also black
00:05:37.680 Everything felt awkward
00:05:39.680 I wouldn't walk into school
00:05:41.200 I would move my right leg and then my left leg
00:05:44.160 Individually
00:05:45.040 Right
00:05:45.920 Left
00:05:46.640 Right
00:05:47.040 Stand-up comedy was the process of unlearning all that programming
00:05:50.160 Being six years old in the grocery store
00:05:52.400 And seeing two gay men kiss and their beards interlocking
00:05:56.160 Me going, ew!
00:05:58.480 No! Don't say that! Don't think that!
00:06:00.960 Altering your honest feelings just to fit into society
00:06:04.160 Changing who you are to be a good person
00:06:06.800 That's not gross!
00:06:08.720 Being taught that saying the word fat is offensive
00:06:11.360 And to say big boned or wide framed instead
00:06:14.640 The problem is they're still fat
00:06:16.880 You're not saving them from their inevitable diabetes
00:06:19.280 You're just protecting their feelings
00:06:21.200 This was a very effective way to develop my world view
00:06:24.320 And understand who I really am
00:06:26.080 But I wouldn't recommend it to people because you might get the Woody Allen problem
00:06:30.400 No, not the problem of getting married to your adopted Asian daughter
00:06:33.440 But living in order to talk about living
00:06:36.480 Woody Allen's stand-up is not my favorite
00:06:38.400 But his movies are some of the best of all time
00:06:40.480 And the fact he's able to do that with films almost completely comprised of dialogue
00:06:44.000 Is because he's not really in the moment
00:06:46.480 All his experiences are going to be written down one day
00:06:49.440 For example, last month I sent a quarter million dollars in crypto to the wrong address
00:06:54.720 The money was vanished like that
00:06:56.400 But I wasn't dreading it for more than five seconds before I started thinking
00:07:00.720 Oh, this would be a great movie scene
00:07:03.200 I had my mouth like this
00:07:06.160 And I started writing immediately
00:07:08.240 This world view is honest but you will never really live in the moment again
00:07:11.920 When everything in life becomes material
00:07:14.160 The only real way to turn that off is with drugs or quitting
00:07:17.680 Luckily for me seeking the truth so much led me to finding God again
00:07:21.600 I had went full circle from the atheist edgy George Carlin days
00:07:26.160 To somebody with really strong faith
00:07:28.560 One day you're just laughing at jokes from George Carlin
00:07:31.040 About how absurd it is that people ever go to war
00:07:33.840 And slowly you realize that everything ridiculous in this world
00:07:37.760 Stems from the fact that people are just disobeying what has been outlined to us by God